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Writing the Raw: Turning Memory, Wound & Truth Into Poetry Joan Kwon Glass
Poetry
November 7-11, 2022
Open to All
Tiered Tuition
Reserve My Spot This offering is not currently available for registration. Please check back or email Jennifer Jean at jjean@fawc.org for any questions.

About the Offering

ASYNCHRONOUS with LIVE elements

How can we give a fresh and powerful voice to and breathe life into our raw memories? What questions do our memories want us to consider? What memories have we been avoiding because we are not sure how to write about them? In this workshop, we will read and write poems that use the writer’s memories to generate new work. Bring a poem that fits this scope and we will workshop it. We’ll read masterful poems that incorporate memory inventively and artfully, by Rachel McKibbens, Eugenia Leigh, Ellen Bass, Ocean Vuong, Jamaica Baldwin, Danez Smith and others, and respond to writing prompts inspired by these poems. Writers will receive feedback on their new poems as well.

Optional LIVE elements: a Zoom meeting to share your work.

Materials Needed

No specific materials needed for this offering.

About the Instructor/Moderator

Joan Kwon Glass is a Korean diasporic poet, winner of the 2024 Perugia Press Poetry Prize for her book DAUGHTER OF THREE GONE KINGDOMS and NIGHT SWIM, winner of the Diode Book Prize. Joan’s poems have been featured or are forthcoming in POETRY, The Slowdown, Passages North, Poetry Daily, Terrain, Ninth Letter, Rattle, AAWW (The Margins), Poetry Northwest, Tahoma Literary Review, Prairie Schooner, Salamander and elsewhere. She teaches and lives near New Haven, CT.

Accessibility Information

Their work is regularly exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of over 60 museums. Over the past fifteen years, they have built a sustainable career as a visual artist and have extensive experience working with museums, galleries, universities and nonprofit organizations, publishers, and press outlets. In addition to their own creative work, they are passionate about sharing the professional knowledge they’ve acquired throughout their career with other artists.

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